Information and Culture in the Apennines
Paul Pritchard - A mountaineer on Her Majesty's payroll
By Redazione Published: 16/10/2011
Born at the top of a quarry and a teenager at a time when work in the United Kingdom was scarce, Paul Pritchard is the unemployed climber par excellence, the one who lived for climbing,…
The Eiger Obsession - John Harlin Jr.
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 16/10/2011
One is reminded of what Elio Vittorini said to Cesare Pavese when he received Paesi Tuoi from him. It was June 1941 and Vittorini told Einaudi’s workshop man that three or four books like this…
Scialpinismo in Tirolo (Ski mountaineering in Tyrol)
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
With this book a detailed window opens not only onto a vast ski mountaineering potential still little known to the Italian public, but also onto the society, the history and the most unusual features of…
Survive - I sopravvissuti - by John Patterson
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
"Ron and Debbie organise a holiday in Nepal to celebrate their fortieth birthday. Suddenly a terrible storm and a frightening avalanche crash down on the group of climbers they belong to. Trapped in the snow,…
Touching the Void (La morte sospesa)
By Redazione Published: 13/10/2011
Gripping and true like no other... It doesn't often happen that you come out of the cinema glad you paid for the ticket.Most of the time you find you've wasted an evening on some Hollywood…
La via dei lupi (The Way of the Wolves) by Carlo Grande
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 13/10/2011
Perhaps not everyone knows that Carlo Grande thinks his places through before writing about them. Then he lives them in person. And then he feeds on them again until he feels them ringing inside himself.The…
Un posto in cielo by Anatolij Bukreev
By Redazione Published: 16/08/2011
What strikes you most in this book is precisely its 'diary' format. Bukreev, you can feel it, throughout all its pages cannot be anything but sincere.The diaries of an unwitting heroA posthumous book edited by…
Giorni di Ghiaccio (Days of ice) - Marco Confortola
By Redazione Published: 02/08/2011
It was lost between a macrobiotic cookbook and an American crime thriller. I struggled to recognise it and for some time I didn't even notice it. Then one day Marco's gaze... Marco Confortola's book was…
The crosses I carry inside me
By Redazione Published: 01/08/2011
I am not a great man of faith. Not infrequently, in the grip of despondency over everyday problems, I have asked myself hard questions about the true nature of God.But the questions and the doubts…